Despite Walton’s best efforts, however, Tertis turned the premiere down (much to his regret later) and it was instead first performed in 1929 by another of Walton’s friends, the German composer and violist Paul Hindemith. Famous conductor and friend of Walton – Sir Thomas Beecham – suggested to Walton that he write a concerto for the great violist Lionel Tertis. Such was the case with his Viola Concerto. Walton was essentially a self-taught composer, and as such not well known inEngland, but he managed to make the most of the friendships he so easily acquired in the music world. He had not quite achieved fame at this point, but he certainly was well known for an earlier work called Façade – a chamber work made scandalous by their being set to the edgy poems of his friend Edith Sitwell. This masterful Viola Concerto was written by Walton in 1929 when he was 27. William Turner Walton (Born in Lancashire, Oldham, England in 1902 died in Forio d’Ischia, Italy in 1983)
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